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To: ansel12
No. You still don't understand.

Homosexuals have always tried to get into the clergy. We know this from the writings of the early Church Fathers and from medieval schoolmen and abbots. But they can't succeed in any significant numbers if the rules are followed.

If one sneaks into seminary, he won't last long if the rules are followed. A homosexual man can't live in close proximity to a bunch of other young men without being found out (that is the charitable reason for barring them from the priesthood - their situation is a near occasion of sin for them. Like putting a young college man in charge of a sorority house.)

We had a number of bishops who worshiped the Spirit of the Age instead of following the established law of Christ's Church. That resulted in homosexuals not only in the clergy but in the chancery and in seminaries - along with a gaggle of man-hating female fellow-travellers. Thankfully they are on their way out, but they have done a lot of damage, not the least of which is causing many people to believe the celibate model is a failure.

Sorry you see a mild jest as directed at you personally. It wasn't.

17 posted on 02/07/2014 2:03:48 PM PST by AnAmericanMother (Ecce Crucem Domini, fugite partes adversae. Vicit Leo de Tribu Iuda, Radix David, Alleluia!)
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To: AnAmericanMother
Homosexuals have always tried to get into the clergy.

They always will, that is what I was describing a church's leadership culutre that will always attract them, they won't be excluded, what they are required to do is to take a vow of celibacy.

18 posted on 02/07/2014 2:27:12 PM PST by ansel12 (Ben Bradlee -- JFK told me that "he was all for people's solving their problems by abortion".)
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